Word: butlerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave up only three hits. He received good support from an infield composed of Art Wells at catcher, Ben Gill at first, Sheldon Peterfreund at second, Cleve Amory at third, and manager Leo Demeter at shortstop. Outfielder Pete Waring collected two of Eliot's four hits. Pierce Butler pitched for the losers and Charlie Baumgarten was behind the plate...
Dean Russell is a candidate for president of Columbia when 76-year-old Nicholas Murray Butler retires. Irked by businessmen's reference to his college as "The Big Red University," he last year retired liberal, 65-year-old Professor William Heard Kilpatrick. Since then Teachers College leftists, notably Professors George Sylvester Counts and Jesse H. Newlon, have held their tongues...
...squabbly session of the Supreme Court, young TVA Attorney James Lawrence Fly was repeatedly bumbled at by Justice Pierce Butler, made a retort such as Supreme Court justices seldom hear: "Your Honor, the point seems perfectly clear except in Your Honor's mind...
...previous decision of its own, the Supreme Court of the U. S. settled the breakfast-food issue. Out of a solemn huddle came the Justices with a decision that the term "shredded wheat" did not belong solely to National Biscuit Co. Six-to-two (dissenters: Justices McReynolds and Butler), they found "shredded wheat" simply a generic term by which a "biscuit in pillow-shaped form is generally known to the public...
...last week that she had won the Nobel Prize for Literature (about $40,000), her first thought was "O pu sing sin" (Chinese for "I don't believe it"). Her first words were, "That's ridiculous; it's incredible." Outclassed by earlier prize-winners like William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Mann, by women novelists like Selma Lagerlof or Sigrid Undset who have won it before her, Pearl Buck would be placed by most critics below such U. S. possibilities as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks...